[PLUG] Fwd: [india-gii] Microsoft taking over Maharashtra's future

[Aditya Godbole]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Vivek Khurana<hiddenharmony at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone aware of this ?
>
> [Message forwarded from india-gii list]
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> From: Arun Mehta <arun.mehta at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:09 AM
> Subject: [india-gii] Microsoft taking over Maharashtra's future
> To: india-gii at lists.cpsr.org
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> Is the Mumbai/Pune open source community doing anything about this? I
> am sure, that with government resources involved, we can ask that not
> just Windows be taught, to the thousands of teachers Microsoft is
> training each year...

Anyone volunteering to teach? At a rough estimate about 20 people
would be required to work on this full-time. A few more to install and
administer the systems.
I guess with enough people volunteering, we could approach the
government authorities to allow us to share some of the load.

-aditya

PS: We need some donations to take care of the bribes as well.